Andy Williams

Professor of Civil Society and Development at LCC International University in Lithuania. Formerly lived in the Dominican Republic, Rwanda, and the US.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If this won't make your blood boil, then I don't know what will.

We unfortunately have school shootings in the US.

But imagine if the shooter actually is a US soldier or someone protected by police.

That is what these Palestinian children faced when they were being shot at and killed in their own school by an Israeli soldier or settler.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🚨BREAKING: This is VERY BRUTAL 🔥

🇺🇸Professor John: "From 1971 to 2022, America killed 38 million people. They are the origin of terrøŕiśm."

“And this is the very same U.S. that now wants to ‘liberate’ Iran.”

BRUTAL REALITY CHECK 🔥🗿

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

I really don't want the feminization hypothesis to be right, but when you see results like these (from Horowitz et al. 2018's survey of soc faculty -- 14% response rate)...

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

Women overwhelmingly value equity and emotional safety over the pursuit of truth and academic freedom. Men are the opposite.

It's going to take more parents standing up for their sons and fewer CEOs being browbeaten by their wives to stop the feminization of universities and society at large.

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

The Rise of Cry Bullies

Bret Weinstein reacts to a study presented by Heather Heying in Episode 311 of The Evolutionary Lens, which suggests that, unlike men, women tend to show empathy regardless of whether it is justified.

“Everybody is competing for the claim of most victimized because that brings about the most power.”

[Magoo PhD @HodlMagoo]

1) Agent (a) calls “Gun”.

2) Agent (b) unholsters his weapon.

3) Agent (a) disarms suspects weapon, which was in its holster.

4) Agent (a) accidentally discharges confiscated handgun.

5) Agent (b) shoots suspect in back

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This speech *is* one for the history books. But that’s less a compliment, than a coda.

Carney has given us the words to mark the end of the ‘rules-based order’…by acknowledging it never really existed.

It was a collective illusion. That now is over.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tolkien's reflection on Frodo's failure to destroy the Ring will always live with me.

"Frodo undertook his quest out of love – to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task. His real contract was only to do what he could, to try to find a way, and to go as far on the road as his strength of mind and body allowed. He did that. I do not myself see that the breaking of his mind and will under demonic pressure after torment was any more a moral failure than the breaking of his body would have been – say, by being strangled by Gollum, or crushed by a falling rock."

[Richard @ricwe123]

Months before the 2014 Maidan coup, a top Ukrainian official warned parliament that Washington was orchestrating chaos in Ukraine.
He stated that American-backed NGOs, including USAID, were operating out of the US embassy to mobilize protesters, inflame unrest, and push the country toward destabilization.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

Victory for the Darlington Nurses

BREAKING: The Darlington nurses have WON their landmark Employment Tribunal case.

A judge has ruled that the NHS policy allowing a biological male into the women’s changing rooms was unlawful harassment and discrimination.

Historic moment for women’s dignity in a landmark case supported by the Christian Legal Centre

See more👇

https://t.co/M8NydGZzkc

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Political scientists & data quants have been telling us this for half a decade.

Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & unchanged.

And you can see it across the data:

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Countries Bombed by the United States Since 1945

1. 🇯🇵 Japan → 1945
2. 🇩🇪 Germany → 1945

3. 🇨🇳 China → 1945–1946
4. 🇨🇳 China → 1950–1953
5. 🇨🇳 China → 1999

6. 🇰🇵 North Korea → 1950–1953

7. 🇬🇹 Guatemala → 1954
8. 🇮🇩 Indonesia → 1958
9. 🇨🇺 Cuba → 1961

10. 🇱🇦 Laos → 1964–1973
11. 🇻🇳 Vietnam → 1965–1973
12. 🇰🇭 Cambodia → 1969–1973

13. 🇱🇧 Lebanon → 1983–1984
14. 🇱🇾 Libya → 1986
15. 🇮🇷 Iran → 1987–1988

16. 🇳🇮 Nicaragua → 1980s

17. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 1991
18. 🇰🇼 Kuwait → 1991
19. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 1993
20. 🇸🇴 Somalia → 1993
21. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina → 1995
22. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 1996
23. 🇸🇩 Sudan → 1998
24. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan → 1998
25. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 1998

26. 🇷🇸 Yugoslavia / Serbia → 1999

27. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan → 2001–2021+
28. 🇵🇰 Pakistan → 2004–2018
29. 🇸🇴 Somalia → 2007+
30. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 2003–2011
31. 🇾🇪 Yemen → 2002+
32. 🇮🇶 Iraq → 2014+
33. 🇸🇾 Syria → 2014+

34. 🇱🇾 Libya → 2011

35. 🇾🇪 Yemen → 2024–2025
36. 🇮🇷 Iran → 2025
37. 🇸🇴 Somalia → 2025
38. 🇸🇾 Syria → 2025
39. 🇳🇬 Nigeria → 2025
40. 🇻🇪 Venezuela → 2026

Note: The list includes direct U.S. bombing, airstrikes, drone strikes, and missile attacks.

NATO or coalition operations are included only when the United States played a primary or leading role.

Source: William Blum (Rogue State, Killing Hope), Maurer. ca US Bombing List, Wikispooks (US bombing campaigns), ACLED (2025), Al Jazeera, Reuters, Antiwar. com, Newsweek

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. This actually just happened on Capitol Hill.

SEN. JOSH HAWLEY: "Can men get pregnant?"

LIBERAL DR. VERMA: "I'm not sure what the goal of the question is."

HAWLEY: "The goal is to establish a biological reality. Can men get pregnant?"

VERMA: "I take care of people with many identities."

HAWLEY: "Can men get pregnant?"

VERMA: "Again, as I'm saying-"

HAWLEY: "You said science and evidence should control. Can men get pregnant? You're a doctor, I think."

VERMA: "Science and evidence should guide medicine."

HAWLEY: "Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant?"

VERMA: "I think yes-no questions like this are a political tool."

WOW. 🤯🤯🤯 @HawleyMO

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

The huge death tolls in Iran being splashed all over the media are sourced to an outfit in Fairfax, VA called "Human Rights Activists in Iran" that is overwhelmingly funded by the US government. What is their methodology? Is it credible? Who cares? Just pump the big numbers out

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.

Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.

Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”

Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”

Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”

Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”

Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”

Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”

Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”

Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”

Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”

Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”

Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”

Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”

Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”

Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”

Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”

[Dave Benner, Nemesis of Neocons @dbenner83]

For all the talk of the Monroe Doctrine in recent days, here is what the CREATOR of the creed, John Quincy Adams, actually believed about foreign policy in his 1821 address to Congress:

"[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom...She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

This data from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime shows how, under the US military occupation, Afghanistan became the world's top producer of opium (used to make heroin).

After the US withdrew from Afghanistan, opium production suddenly collapsed.

Source: https://t.co/7J5O0H368D

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Maybe the Democrats can learn from Trump's cabinet, which seems capable of completely memory-holing what they ardently believed just a month ago. Take @SecWar @PeteHegseth, for instance, on regime change and 'feckless nation building.'